clarence paul, who was my musical director at the time, came up with an idea for, you know, the wholet was called "little stevie wonder live at the apollo." >> larry: you were always -- you ain't so little anymore. you were once little stevie wonder, right? >> never little. big in spirit. small in size. grow to kind of match my spirit. >> larry: did the harmonica come naturally to you, too? >> it was -- harmonica was something that obviously growing up in detroit you'd hear the different harmonica players come and playing the blues as they're walking down the streets. when i was off for the christmas holiday season, an uncle gave me a harmonica, chromatic harmonica. and obviously, i didn't know what to got button. i said what is this for? so it's like -- ♪ but then i figured for me playing the harmonica after a while was like the saxophone to me. so it was like -- ♪ ♪ larry king >> larry: you take to music, you're called a genius. did that bother you, being called a genius so young? >> the amazing thing about being called a genius is i never paid any attention to it. i appreciated it.